Political Quotes

[17th Angel]

There are jobs Americans aren't doing. ... If you've got a chicken factory, a chicken-plucking factory, or whatever you call them, you know what I'm talking about." --George W. Bush Comedian of Chief. Tipp City, Ohio, April 19, 2007

Oh I know what you're talking about!! You......... *pause* Moron.

Oh another... Chestnut.... From the same guy.

'They misunderestimated me.'

I know I sure did!!! I bet you did too? Misunderestimated his stupidity..... Serious question.... How does a moron get to be the leader of your country? Seriously? I know men are men, and they mess up, make mistakes... But this guy is dedicated to being a retard..... 24/7 He don't take time off...

[Pathless]

Originally Posted by 17th Angel

There are jobs Americans aren't doing. ... If you've got a chicken factory, a chicken-plucking factory, or whatever you call them, you know what I'm talking about." --George W. Bush Comedian of Chief. Tipp City, Ohio, April 19, 2007

Oh I know what you're talking about!! You......... *pause* Moron.

Oh another... Chestnut.... From the same guy.

'They misunderestimated me.'

I know I sure did!!! I bet you did too? Misunderestimated his stupidity..... Serious question.... How does a moron get to be the leader of your country? Seriously? I know men are men, and they mess up, make mistakes... But this guy is dedicated to being a retard..... 24/7 He don't take time off...

lmao. We are a nation of zombies. We elect stupid people to do stupid things. What can I say? There's no excuse for that. We deserve to fry under a billion suns.

A chicken-plucking factory??!!! For the love of Christ man!! Who wants to do that work??! Beyond that, it's inhumane, sick, insane, perverted. Chicken factories. Jesus weeps.

[17th Angel]

jesus wept indeed.... The angels shall cry and the demons shall lie.

What odds do you think of me being able to move over there and become your President? Think it's worth a shot.....

[Pathless]

Nah. Nothing personal, mind you. I mean you could win if you had a bazillion million dollars and a crack team of professionals. Oh and owning direct access to media, fear generators, and mass opinion shapers helps out, too.

Really though, why waste your time? The whole country is floundering around stupidly. Who can fix that?

[17th Angel]

Hmm pathless... Spot me a bazillion million dollars? I'll pay it back...

[Pathless]

Originally Posted by 17th Angel

Hmm pathless... Spot me a bazillion million dollars? I'll pay it back...

I'm broke, Angel. I send you in the direction of the World Bank.

Here's one from Thomas Jefferson that you never hear. I've just seen it in my much-neglected ANARCHY! Anthology. This comes quoted in an essay by Voltairine de Cleyre entitled "Anarchism and American Traditions":

"The spirit of the times may alter, will alter. Our rulers will become corrupt, our people careless. A single zealot may become persecutor, and better men be his victims. It can never be too often repeated that the time for fixing every essential right, on a legal basis, is while our rulers are honest, ourselves united. From the conclusion of this [revolutionary] war we shall be going downhill. It will not then be necessary to resort every moment to the people for support. They will be forgotten, therefore, and their rights disregarded. They will forget themselves in the sole faculty of making money, and will never think of uniting to effect a due respect for their rights. The shackles, therefore, which shall not be knocked off at the conclusion of this war, will be heavier and heavier, till our rights shall revive or expire in a convulsion."

Emphasis mine.

[Tao_Equus]

This one to mark the resignation of Prime Minister Tony Blair:

"Today is not a day for soundbites..... but.... I feel the hand of history upon us"

Well he's gone now.. we can only hope that...
things can only get better !

[Snoopy]

Dang you TE, I was going to post that!!!

s.

[Tao_Equus]

Originally Posted by Snoopy

Dang you TE, I was going to post that!!!

s.

lol soz have you seen the clip of him saying it? Scary!! Almost as scary as when Bush talked about 'things from the sky' guiding him :P

[flowperson]

Originally Posted by Tao_Equus

lol soz have you seen the clip of him saying it? Scary!! Almost as scary as when Bush talked about 'things from the sky' guiding him :P

Don't mean to correct you Brit boys on issues regarding the language of the realm...besides y'all invented it. I believe he said "thangs frum d' sky, a-guidin' him".

D'ya thank he might have been talkin' about angels ?

flow....

[Pathless]

Originally Posted by Tao_Equus

lol soz have you seen the clip of him saying it? Scary!! Almost as scary as when Bush talked about 'things from the sky' guiding him :P

What? Bush and Things from the Sky??? Please post the quote. Dear Lord!! We don't get that kind of coverage over here. That sounds like prime alien and psychologically deviant bafoonery to me! Please share!

Meanwhile, I can hear the child upstairs machine-gunning his enemies on his virtual reality machine. Jesus help us all.

[Snoopy]

Originally Posted by Tao_Equus

lol soz have you seen the clip of him saying it? Scary!!

yeah, I saw it "live" first time round...seems like a long time ago now...

s.

[Tao_Equus]

Originally Posted by flowperson

Don't mean to correct you Brit boys on issues regarding the language of the realm...besides y'all invented it. I believe he said "thangs frum d' sky, a-guidin' him".

D'ya thank he might have been talkin' about angels ?

flow....

lol, Flow, I dont think he quite knew what he meant, he looked pretty spaced out at the time himself tho... so maybe he's been abducted and returned to do the lizards will

[Tao_Equus]

Originally Posted by Pathless

What? Bush and Things from the Sky??? Please post the quote. Dear Lord!! We don't get that kind of coverage over here. That sounds like prime alien and psychologically deviant bafoonery to me! Please share!

Meanwhile, I can hear the child upstairs machine-gunning his enemies on his virtual reality machine. Jesus help us all.

I have tried to find it as a clip but cant I saw it on tv the day he said it...was 3 or 4 years ago now I think. Maybe Flow would know better where to search?

[niranjan]

Thomas Paine





THESE are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated.

• The American Crisis (19 December 1776)

• Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.

• It is the duty of the patriot to protect his country from its government.

• It is of the utmost danger to society to make it [religion] a party in political disputes.
• Of more worth is one honest man to society and in the sight of God, than all the crowned ruffians that ever lived.

“These are the times that try men's souls.”


“If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace”


The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.”


“It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.”


“The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of
resistance”

“Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst”


“Persecution is not an original feature in any religion; but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law”


“An army of principles can penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.”

“We have it in our power to begin the world over again”

“Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be true”

It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what one does not believe.

I have always strenuously supported the right of every man to his own opinion, however different that opinion might be to mine. He who denies another this right makes a slave of himself to his present opinion, because he precludes himself the right of changing it.

Reason and Ignorance, the opposites of each other, influence the great bulk of mankind. If either of these can be rendered sufficiently extensive in a country, the machinery of government goes easily on. Reason obeys itself; and Ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.

To argue with a man who has renounced his reason is like giving medicine to the dead


The countries the most famous and the most respected of antiquity are those which distinguished themselves by promoting and patronizing science, and on the contrary those which neglected or discouraged it are universally denominated rude and barbarous. The patronage which Britain has shown to Arts, Science and Literature has given her a better established and lasting rank in the world than she ever acquired by her arms. And Russia is a modern instance of the effect which the encouragement of those things produces both as to the internal improvement of a country and the character it raises abroad. The reign of Louis the fourteenth is more distinguished by being the Era of Science and Literature in France than by any other circumstance of those days.



No falsehood is so fatal as that which is made an article of faith.


“It is an affront to treat falsehood with complaisance”


“The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is reason.”

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On Thomas Paine

"Thomas Paine needs no monument made with hands; he has erected a monument in the hearts of all lovers of liberty."
-- President Andrew Jackson, quoted by Robert Green Ingersoll, "Thomas Paine" (North American Review, August, 1892) ††


"Had he been willing to live a hypocrite, he would have been respectable, he at least could have died surrounded by other hypocrites, and at his death there would have been an imposing funeral, with miles of carriages, filled with hypocrites, and above his hypocritical dust there would have been a hypocritical monument covered with lies."
-- Robert Green Ingersoll on Thomas Paine, in "Our Infidels"



I have always regarded Paine as one of the greatest of all Americans. Never have we had a sounder intelligence in this republic… It was my good fortune to encounter Thomas Paine's works in my boyhood… it was, indeed, a revelation to me to read that great thinker's views on political and theological subjects. Paine educated me then about many matters of which I had never before thought. I remember very vividly the flash of enlightenment that shone from Paine's writings and I recall thinking at that time, 'What a pity these works are not today the schoolbooks for all children!' My interest in Paine was not satisfied by my first reading of his works. I went back to them time and again, just as I have done since my boyhood days
---Thomas Alva Edison

• I never tire of reading Tom Paine.
• --Abraham Lincoln

I consider Paine our greatest political thinker. As we have not advanced, and perhaps never shall advance, beyond the Declaration and Constitution, so Paine has had no successors who extended his principles.

----Thomas Alva Edison